Midlander named director of India's largest museum complex

Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, January 3, 2010

Midland resident George Jacob has been named director of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction.

Smithsonian trained Jacob, an internationally sought veteran museologist, has been the founding director of two museums in his career.

The 650,000-square-foot museum and heritage center rises above a seven acre web of reflecting pools connected by a 165-meter pedestrian bridge connecting different zones of the museum galleries, library, cafe and performing arts theater, with exhibits celebrating 500 years of heritage, aspirations and living traditions of the Sikh diaspora.